Wheel-fender.



J. NITZSGHE/ WHEEL FENDER.' Armolulon FILED JUNE 26,1911.

Patented Jan. 2, 1912.

- MN I c/alz'us lrz'tzse UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- JULIUS NITZSCHE,OF WISNER, NEBRASKA.

WHEEL-FENDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 2, 1912.

Application filed Jane 26, 1911. Serial No. 635,337.

vent the wheel from being elogged with weeds. dirt. grass and thelike.

An nnportant ob eet (it this invention is to provide a \vheel-t'emler ofthe above.-

eharzu-t er, \\'lllt'll is simple in eonstruetion, cheap to manufaeture.positive in operation, and easy to be attaehed to and removed from thewheel.

()the r objeets and advantages of this invention will l. i apparentduring theeourse oi the following deseription.

In the aeeom mnying drawings forming a part of this speeilieation and inwhieh like numerals are employed todesignate like parts throughout thevsame, Figure 1 is a side View of my improved fender, showing the Samedisposed in cooperative relation with the rear wheel of a sulky or gangplow, Fig. 2 is an end view of the saine',"l*ig. t is an inner side viewof my improved tender, the same being removed from 'the wheel, and Fig.4 is a detail-of means for attaehing the tender to the. axle of thewheel. the same being a seetion taken on line 4-4 of Fig.

In the drawings wherein is illustratml preferred embodiment of myinvention. the numeral 1 designates a rear wheel of a sulk'y or gangplow. whieh is rot'a'tably mounted upon the inelined lower end 2o! axle3.

Suitable means (not shown) are provided .tor turning the shaft 3 tosteer the wheel l when the plow is being turned from its straight lineof travel. The wheel 1 is in (lined with relation to the ground. asshown in Figs. 1 and as is eustomary in sulky and gang plows.

My improved tender eomprises a eireular disk -l. preferably providedupon its upper edge with a laterally extending approximatelysemi-eireular flange 5, whieh is adapted to eoverthe upper portion ofthe wheel 1, as elearly shown in Fig. 2. The disk t is providedeeeentrieally thereof with an opening'o. through \vhieh extends thelower portion 2 ol' the axle 3. i) thus PU sitioning the opening (3eeeentrieally, the

lower edge of the disk 4 substantially coincides with that of the wheel1 while a space 7 is provided between the flange 5 and the wheel 1. a

The disk 4 is held in its requisite position by detaehable clampingmeans, eomprising a U-bolt S. surrounding the lower portion of the axle3 and passing through openings 9 formed through the disk el. A block 10is disposed between the axle. 3 and the disk 4 and the U-bolt 8 passesthrough openings formed in-a seeondbloek l1 and is provided beyondthesaiue with screw-threaded ends 12 to reeeive nuts 13.

From the description of the above referred to parts, it is obvious thatthe disk t is rigidly eonneeted with tl axle The numeral 14 designates aseraper which is elamped to the lower portion of the axle 3 by a bolt 15or the like and extends through an opening it) of the. disk t toward theupper portion of the wheel 1. The scraper l-l carries at its upper freeend a lateral extension 17 to slidably engage the upper portion of theperiphery of the wheel In use. my fender prevents material from i beingattached to the spokes and hub ot the wheel and henee prevents the wheelfrom being elogged. The disk l is disposed very near the wheel 1.whereby praetieally no material will pass between the same. Thefem deris rigidly eonneeted with the axle 3 and may be readily removedtherefrom when desired. The seraper ll t'ullils theordiiuiry .lunetionof removing material from the periphery of the wheel.

A partieular advantage of my invention is that the wheel tender ean bereadily attaehed to dill'erent makes of snlky and gang plows by a veryslight ehange in the tasteniug means without any material alteration ofthe wheel tender or the-plow.

I wish it understood that the form of my invention herewith shown anddeseribed is to be taken as a preferred example of the same. amt that('ertain ehanges in the shape. size and arrangement of parts may beresorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or thescope of the subjoined rlaim.

Having thus deseribed my invention, I elaim The eombination with anaxle. a wheel rotatably mounted thereon, a tender eonr prising acircular disk disposed adjacent one side of the Wheel and having an 0ening formed eccentrically therethrough or re: ceiving the axle, saiddisk being provided upon its upper portion with a laterally extendingflange spanning the upper portion of the periphery of the wheel, saiddisk having the lower portion of its periphery coinciding with the lowerportion of the periphery of the wheel and the upper portion of itsperiphery extending beyond the I upper portion of the periphery of saidWheel to form a space between the wheel and the laterally extenjdingflangeymeans for rigidly H. D. DELLY, HUGO AJLEISY.

